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LCD Soundsystem - X-Ray Eyes
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, stripped back, electro-synth-post-punk by the popular New York band fronted by James Murphy with a new single serving as teaser for an as yet unfinished new album, out on Columbia Records
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Manic Street Preachers: Sean Moore, Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield
Song of the Day: The popular Welsh rockers return with their signature triumphant sound and a stirring, piano-rippling number with massive chorus, a song about “realisation and understanding – of celebrating the tiny miracles that still exist whilst accepting and embracing managed decline”
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Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops
Song of the Day: “Each generation makes its own apology.” With a train-like rhythm, plinky piano, harp and more, one of two eccentric, inventive new singles, alongside Capricorn, to herald the lauded New York indie-art-pop band’s forthcoming new album, Only God Was Above Us, out on 5 April on Columbia Records
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Beyoncé returns with a bold new look and claims another genre …
Song of the Day: Woo! While we make a rare move to the mainstream on SOTD, the American megastar also surprises by going catchily country with banjo and pedal steel and all, with a song from the second part of her new project, perhaps reclaiming American roots music
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Crazy again: Beth Ditto and co are back …
Song of the Day: With a thrumming bass but also a notably tender and catchy love song, the Arkansas-formed indie trio fronted by the charismatic Beth Ditto return after more than a decade away to herald a new album, Real Power, produced by Rick Rubin
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From the video for Depeche Mode’s Ghosts Again, directed by Anton Corbijn
Song of the Day: Basildon’s finest return with one of their best songs for years, the veterans’ newest noir electro-pop number filled with bittersweet melancholy, especially poignant after the sudden passing of bandmate Andy “Fletch” Fletcher in 2022
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LCD Soundsystem return with a soundtrack single
Song of the Day: “I need a new body!” A fabulous first new track in five years from the Brooklyn post-punk legends was written for Noah Baumbach’s new film adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise by James Murphy, Pat Mahoney, and Nancy Whang
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FIrst Aid Kit: Johanna and Klara Söderberg
Song of the Day: The Swedish sisters' Johanna and Klara Söderberg return with their first new record for three years, with their signature close, warm vocal harmonies and uplifting pop-country, this song expressing a release from insecurity and anxiety and being about kinder to yourself
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